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michaela bartonova sculpture noah's ark family czech

Posted on 19 Feb 2014

Michaela Bartonova is a freelance artist and director of Puppet Theater Tineola in the Czech Republic. She teaches puppet design focusing on the aesthetic properties of puppet. She also sculpts. She has done a series depicting the people in the Biblical story of Noah and his ark.

As inspiring as the story is -- the survival of his family and all the animals, a literal interpretation gives us numbers for how many animals (land, water, air) so large that they could not all fit in one huge wooden ship.

The following video gives us the mathematics of the ark and the Great Flood.

Religious historian Ken McCulloch raises a few more questions that relate to the literal interpretation of the Biblical account.